TUSCALOOSA – Two months to the day that his father was formally announced as Alabama's next men's basketball coach, Avery Johnson Jr. had his own announcement.

The former Texas A&M guard will be joining his father's new team, formally ending a month-long process that followed his release from the Aggies on May 8.

"Life comes at you fast but sometimes you got to put your seat belt on ... Officially part of Alabama men's Basketball. #RollTide," Johnson Jr. tweeted from his personal account a little before 1 p.m. Monday.

Johnson Jr., a 5-foot-11 guard from Plano, Texas, is expected to redshirt according to his father, Avery Johnson Sr., who has spoken about his son's unique transfer opportunity as a father only due to NCAA restrictions on recruits.

"The plan right now is for Avery Jr. to redshirt next year," Avery Johnson Sr., said two weeks ago during the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida.

Whether or not he'll be on scholarship is still unclear, as Alabama has yet to officially announce the move, but Johnson Jr. must sit out a season due to the NCAA policy for transfers within Division I, and will have three years of eligibility remaining starting in 2016-17. While speaking exclusively to the Decatur Daily/ Florence TimesDaily, Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy was disappointed to lose Johnson Jr., though remained fully supportive of his decision to join his father's team.

"First of all, (Alabama is) getting a guy that's going to be committed to winning and understands it's about the team. In this day and era, that's hard to find," Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy said in Destin. "He's got good character, he's going to bring it every day, and offensively in an up-tempo system, he can really get from one end to the other."

Johnson Jr. averaged 1.4 points and 4.3 minutes per game last season as a freshman reserve with the Aggies.